“It was astonishing how quickly friendship could turn to enmity, she thought, like a compass needle swinging from one pole to the other.
They’d been excellent friends. They’d make excellent enemies as well.”

— Alastair Reynolds , book Pushing Ice

Source: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 132)

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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“An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Quoted by George Bernard Shaw in a letter to Ellen Terry, 25 September 1896.
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“I simply can’t make myself believe that if they’d been handicapped by belief in capricious supernatural beings they’d have achieved what they did.”

John Brunner book Total Eclipse

Source: Total Eclipse (1974), Chapter 14 (p. 116)

“They’d made a plan, and so far everything was more or less going the way they’d hoped. The thought left Holden increasingly terrified.”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 47 (p. 475)

“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.”

Eugene Field (1850–1895) American writer

The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field: The love affairs of a Bibliomaniac (1896), Ch. IV : The Mania of Collecting Seizes Me, p. 44
Context: Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Within the compass of five generations we find the Puritan first an uncompromising believer in demonology and magic, and then a scoffer at everything involving the play of fancy.